Mumbai cricket team

For the IPL team, see Mumbai Indians.
Mumbai Cricket Association Senior Men's Team
Captain: Aditya Tare
Coach: Chandrakant Pandit
Founded: 1930
Home ground:

Wankhede Stadium (capacity 45,000);

Brabourne Stadium, (capacity 30,000)
Ranji Trophy wins: 41
Irani Cup wins: 14 (1 shared)
Nissar Trophy wins: 1
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins: 2
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins: 0
Official website: www.mumbaicricket.com

The Mumbai cricket team is a cricket team representing the city of Mumbai in Indian domestic cricket. The team's primary home ground is the Wankhede Stadium in South Mumbai. Secondary home venues include the MCA ground in Bandra Kurla Complex and Brabourne Stadium. The team comes under the West Zone designation. It was formerly known as the Bombay cricket team, but changed when the city was officially renamed from Bombay to Mumbai.

Mumbai is the most successful team in the history of Ranji Trophy, India's premier domestic cricket competition, with 41 titles, the most recent being in 2015–16. It also has 14 Irani Cup titles to its name, also the most by any team. Mumbai has produced some of the greatest Indian cricketers of all time such as Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Vijay Merchant, Polly Umrigar and Dilip Vengsarkar.

Competition history

Mumbai is one of three teams located in the state of Maharashtra (the others being the Maharashtra cricket team and the Vidarbha cricket team), and has always competed as a separate team from the rest of the state. Despite this division, Mumbai has become India's most successful domestic team. It has played in 44 of the 67 Ranji finals through 2014 winning 40.

Bombay won the first-ever Ranji Trophy competition in 1934–35 with Vijay Merchant starring in the final against Northern India. The title was retained the following season with a victory over Madras in the final. Bombay quickly showed themselves to be one of the strongest teams in the competition with 7 victories in the first 20 seasons of the Ranji Trophy. When playing Maharashtra in a semi-final of the 1948-49 season at Pune, Mumbai became the first and only team in first-class history to score over 600 runs in both innings of the same match - 651 and 714.[1]

However, it was after this period that their dominance was at its zenith. From 1955–56 to 1976–77, Bombay won 20 out of 22 titles including 15 in a row from 1958–59 to 1972–73. Bombay continued to regularly reach the Ranji Trophy final up to the mid-1980s.

The later half of the 1980s was Bombay's least successful period with no final appearances in 5 consecutive seasons. However, they were able to regain some of their former glory from the 1990s onwards winning an additional 6 Ranji Trophies from 1993–94 to 2003–04 under the new name of Mumbai.

In 2006–07, Mumbai won their 37th Ranji Trophy with victory over Bengal in the final at Wankhede Stadium. This win was particularly memorable as the team had recovered from the setbacks of losing their first three games, and being reduced to 0/5 in the semi-final against Baroda.

Mumbai's dominance of the Ranji Trophy has led to many consecutive appearances in the Irani Trophy with much success including 15 wins. However, they have failed to beat the Rest of India team since 1998.

Honours

Notable players

Sachin Tendulkar

The team is known for its batting and spin bowling and has produced many of the Indian cricket team's top batsmen over the years. Players who have appeared in the national team include:

Current squad and Support Staff

●Coach- Chandrakant Pandit ●Team manager - Ganesh Iyer ●Video analyst - Saurabh Walkar ●Trainer/strength and conditioning - Prateek Kadam ●Bowling / Assistant coach - Omkar Salvi ● Mentor - ● Physio - ● Masseur - Vijay Kushwaha

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No. Name Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style FC 100s FC 5+ Wkts Notes
Captain & Wicket-keeper Batsmen
Aditya Tare 7 November 1987 Right-handed 7 -
Batsmen
Suryakumar Yadav 14 September 1990 Right-handed Right-arm medium 10 0
Shreyas Iyer 6 December 1994 Right-handed Right-arm off break 6 0
Siddhesh Lad 23 May 1992 Right-handed Right-arm off break 2 0
Shrideep Mangela 1 April 1988 Left-handed Right-arm leg break
Nikhil Patil 27 November 1989 Right-handed Right-arm off break 1
Ajinkya Rahane 6 June 1988 Right-handed Right-arm medium 26 0
Rohit Sharma 30 April 1987 Right-handed Right-arm off break 19 0
All-rounders
Abhishek Nayar 8 October 1983 Left-handed Right-arm medium 12 4
Akhil Herwadkar 31 October 1994 Left-handed Right-arm off break 4 1
Jay Bista 23 December 1995 Right-handed Right-arm off break 1 1
Abhishek Raut 3 March 1987 Right-handed Right-arm leg break
Wicket-keepers
Sushant Marathe 16 October 1985 Right-handed
Bowlers
Dhawal Kulkarni 10 December 1988 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 0 13
Iqbal Abdulla 2 December 1989 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 1 5
Vishal Dabholkar 23 March 1987 Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 3
Javed Khan 20 October 1990 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Tushar Deshpande 15 May 1995 Right-handed Right-arm medium
Shardul Thakur 16 October 1991 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 0 9
Balwinder Sandhu 26 May 1987 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 0 5
Harmeet Singh 7 September 1992 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Ankush Jaiswal 16 June 1992 Right-handed Right-arm off break

References

  1. ↑ "Maharashtra v Bombay". http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2012. External link in |work= (help)
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